Digital music forum: burn music but doesn't play in my car stereo

I burn music to cd-r and was able to play it in my car and home stereo. I purchased music from msn and burn it from my play list but this time it won't let me burn it into cd-r or cd-rw. I use the rest of the cd-r when I burn music the first time. Is this possible that I can burn music into the cd-r or cd-rw and the rest of the cd-r doesn't work. What is HighMat audio? what is this for?

I purchased a cd-r that says 700MB, 80minutes but if I selected a drive with Audio CD in WMP I could only burn 17 or less music into the cd-r, if I selected the HighMat Audio I could burn music up to 700 MB but doesn't played in my car or home stereo. Please help, need an explanation. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

2. There can be DRM issues. If you buy said tracks, there can be limits to what you can do with them. I find buying CDs to be more friendly to me making a compilation CD of what I want. NO ONE MAY HELP YOU THWART THE DRM RESTRICTIONS HERE and posts on how to vanish. Just FYI...

3. 17. 17 what? You didn't say, but 17 tracks could be just about right.

Standard CD players only handel standard CDsMost downloaded music is in the form of MP3 file so a standard cd player won't play them. Many newer cd players will play mp3s, but not the older ones.You would have have to convert the MP3 file to a 44.1kc wavefile then burn it to a CD.Copyright issues may keep this from working. John

That is all well and good that now i know what to do but i have no clue how to convert the MP3 to 44.1Kc files my stereo is an old sony still works fine and has a great quality sound but its 6 years old and can't play mp3 files so i need to convert them the to 44.1kc file. Do you have any idea on how to do this? if so could you please tell as i really want to play some music on this stereo.

You can use CDex (free download) to convert mp3-files to wav. And you can burn the wav-files to an audio cd using your favorite burning program (cdburnerxp is a free download if you don't have one already). Be sure to choose audio cd as output format.

Did you try adding music to a CDR that you had already burned? Generally speaking to get something to play away from your computer, like in your car, you have to close the cd after burning. If it's an eighty minute cdr and you only use thirty minutes you can't add to it after it has been closed. If that's not the case then Bob is right, there is only so much you are allowed to do with online purchased music.

I MAY HAVE STUMBLED ON TO AN ANSWER FOR YOU. WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD MUSIC, DON'T USE THE "DOWNLOAD" BUTTON, USE THE "DOWNLOAD AS..." BUTTON AND IT WILL SAVE TO HARD DRIVE "SAVED FILES". IF YOU DON'T HAVE iTUNES, DOWNLOAD IT AND OPEN "MUSIC". YOU CAN THEN DRAG FROM THE "SAVED FILES" TO THE "MUSIC" FOLDER. ONCE YOU HAVE THE "MUSIC" FOLDER FILLED TO YOUR LIKING, UNCHECK ALL OF THE SONGSAND ONE BY ONE RIGHT CLICK ON THE SONGS ON "CONVERT TO "AAC". THIS MAY BE DONE AUTOMATICALLY. NOW YOU CAN TRANSFER THEM TO A PLAYLIST AND BURN TO DISK. THESES SONGS SHOULD PLAY IN EVERYTHING BUT THE FIRST GENERATION CD PLAYERS. I'VE BEEN FIGHTIONG THIS FOR OVER A MONTH NOW.TRY THIS AND GET BACK TO ME TO LET ME KNOW HOW IT WENT.sbiggs3736@peoplepc.com

for burning audio onto a cd...it must be "uncompressed" for best playback quality...therefore the filesize will be much larger than it is if it were in mp3 or wma format...if you were burning in wma or mp3 format,naturally you would get more music on the disc because the files are "compressed" and the software thats built into the player reads the file and uncompresses it for playback...if your player reads mp3 or wma format you can burn more music onto the disc...

The problem is that the file extension you might be using on your cd burning software is not .mp3. In windows media player it defaults to .WPL, select M3U instead (under Burn ---> More Options - Data Discs - Add a list of all burned files to the disc in this format: M3U/ WPL.

Ok, I have music on Windows Media Player(WMP). I could not burn music from WMP and still can't. So, I tried a lot of things that include: making sure the drivers are properly installed, which they are: And downloaded a lot of other products from internet in an attempt to fix the problem including converting the music into AVI files and WMA files but did not help. Final steps i took was to download a CD-DVD burning software and and was able to burn the CD BUT it only plays in my PC and not my car! In the car, it has only one track whether I like it or not and the track is MUTED, NO SOUND!

I have a similar problem where the music i burnt plays in my PC, but not in my car. It thinks it has 1 track which is a MUTE track, No sound! The music was in MP3 format and everything in my PC is up to date in terms of drivers and updated Microsoft updates.

Just follow my instructions and you will be going good with your CD in your car

1 - Use ONLY and ONLY CD-R. Others(like CD-RW, DVD) will never work in old car stereos.

2 - Burn on the writing speed of 4X. DO NOT BURN ON MORE SPEEDS otherwise all burning will go vanished.

3 - Use SAMPLE RATE of 41K.

4 - Check the option for FINALIZED DISK during burning. If the Disk is left open to burn more data in future, ti won't work. There is an option in burning software, to finalize disk.

Use the format you like.. MP3, AIFF, WAv, any format, just select the option for AUDIO CD BURNING, the burning software will convert all your formats to .CDA after burning. that is the actual format can be played in Car stereo.

I have many burned cds made with Windows XP, all in .wma that play fine in any vehicle cd player I've used. With a new computer with Windows 7, no matter what program I burn in, every time the tracks come out as .cda files and will not play on my home computer, work computer, or car cd players.

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